I've gathered some info the last few days and pondered a bit, and
finally came up with a hopefully better system to get shared libraries
(libcrypto.so and libssl.so). I've done pretty extensive tests on my
laptop (running GNU/Debian unstable), and it seems to work well there.
The issues I've battled with are:
- installing the shared libraries didn't create softlinks from
things like libcrypto.so.0 to libcrypto.so.0.9.6, and instead made
you end up with actual copies of the same library under several
names.
- the Makefile was not very comprehensible and did a lot of magic to
get things right and in the right order.
- {Net,Open,Free}BSD had no or not very good support.
- if there's no need for special compiler flags on the platform used
to create PIC code, no shared library would get created.
Things I have still not dealt with:
- HP-UX, AIX (I've access to an HP box (HP-UX 11) and an AIX box
(AIX 4.3), but it still takes some time to get all I need
together).
- linking the OpenSSL applications and test programs against the
shared libraries instead of the static ones.
If I did link against shared libraries, I would rapidly get in
trouble, since I install on /usr/local/ssl, and there are older
OpenSSL libraries (from a Debian package) in /usr/lib... If anyone
has a good solution for this one, I'm listening. The stuff I have in
my /usr/lib is this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 mar 16 2000 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0 ->
libcrypto.so.0.9.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 685228 mar 11 2000 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 808952 okt 5 20:50 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 mar 16 2000 /usr/lib/libssl.so.0 ->
libssl.so.0.9.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 177356 mar 11 2000 /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183864 okt 5 20:50 /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.5
Anyhow, there have been a number of people with opinions about the way
shared libraries were produce with OpenSSL through the configuration
option "shared". I'd like primarly those people, but also anyone
who'd like to do so, to grab the next snapshot (it'll be produced in
about 2½ hours from the time of writing) and test this, both
build and install. I recommend installing in a private directory, so
you don't happen to disturb the rest of the system:
./config shared --openssldir=$(HOME)/private-root/usr/local/ssl
make
make test
make install
This should work on any system. However, on systems where Configure
doesn't have support for shared libraries, you simply won't see any,
but the rest (building the static libraries and so on) should work as
before. If not, I've things to do, I guess :-).
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